[Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookFar from the Madding Crowd CHAPTER XVI 6/7
At last he did turn, and stalked resolutely down the nave, braving them all, with a compressed lip.
Two bowed and toothless old almsmen then looked at each other and chuckled, innocently enough; but the sound had a strange weird effect in that place. Opposite to the church was a paved square, around which several overhanging wood buildings of old time cast a picturesque shade.
The young man on leaving the door went to cross the square, when, in the middle, he met a little woman.
The expression of her face, which had been one of intense anxiety, sank at the sight of his nearly to terror. "Well ?" he said, in a suppressed passion, fixedly looking at her. "Oh, Frank--I made a mistake!--I thought that church with the spire was All Saints', and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said.
I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'.
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